No, perhaps not. And yet hundreds of companies of any size, many of whom will never be sexy enough to make Business 2.0 or the Standard, have added enormous value and productivity to their company by using this medium as a tool within a successful business model instead of relying on the medium itself as the business model.
I can see benefits - if those who develop the policies and software for AOL are forced to use it, they'll likely understand customer issues a lot more quickly. Ease of use, spam, filtering for content might get a lot more attention internally.
Here's a piece about using your software in house - Juno had such a good email client that everyone was using Outlook.
asked earlier here this week about "does on call == at work?".
Many might be at the office 40, 50 or so hours now but how many hours a week are you actually involved in your job? I get good blocks of time to code at home so sometimes I take advantage of it. Sometimes at the office there is zero work being done.
We've recently heard from the Cassini probe about higher-than-expected radiation around Jupiter, and what was expected was already a very high level of radiation. These newly discovered planets are Jupiter-sized or even larger gas giants. Not to say life can't adapt in that environment, but I would expect moons around these planets to be bombarded with intense radiation even if they're an acceptable distance from their sun.
Wal-Mart had some of its strongest growth and expansion during the recession of the early 90s. While the economy and the retail sector in general was hit hard, Wal-Mart steamrolled on.
As a company with the price advantage in a completely different industry, we are also finding a lot of new business lately.
Is to encourage your favorite artists to sign with record labels that aren't among the RIAA.
The only way to battle the RIAA, speaking in terms of business, is to draw the money of the music market to other outlets that offer better service to the bands and that are more friendly to the consumer. A really viable alternative to the RIAA system has to be found, and I'm not talking about virtual tip jars or the odd t-shirt sale.
Somehow I don't see that happening in the short term though if the RIAA, as flawed as it is, remains a more attractive business model to a lot of bands.
If this is really a concern and we've got time and talent, instead of playing on cracking scripts or Quake one night a week, get the word out in your church or community college or elementary school that you're willing to provide free, limited setups of computer systems and an hour of getting started help. In reality that might mean, gasp, getting them going on Windows, but if the "tech gap" is so awful, maybe we can stomach touching MS software a time or two.
Expecting the government to do the same on someone else's hard-earned tax dime is totally unnecessary.
A lot of people have offered that 3dfx's aquisition of STB was the beginning of the end for the opposite reason you mention: it effectively took them *out* of the OEM market and got them into the mfg business. nVidia, on the other hand, is succeeding exactly by relying on "putting your product into somebody else's" - the deal with Microsoft is just the latest.
I could be wrong, I don't follow this industry any closer than I have to, but nVidia's position in the OEM market as well as their chips that were a little better is what has them on top now.
Was the last plane you were on using front wheel version 2.7 or 2.9? You don't care.
If I'm flying on the plane, no, I don't care. But if it's my job to assure to the plane's occupants that it is in the best possible working order, you're damn right I need to know everything down to which tires are on the plane.
Do you think the owners of Ford Explorers care a little bit about which version of Firestone tires are on their vehicles?
This Red Herring article lays it out pretty nicely. P-2-P is not any new innovation, it is simple repackaging of existing ideas which look suspiciously like FTP or, in this case, IRC. The specific uses might seem interesting, but now that people are starting to see that there isn't really any great leap forward here, they can get back to just designing useful file transfer systems and leave the gee-whiz hype at the door.
Unless these guys take their gazillions and bury it in what would have to be an awfully big backyard, any money they have is either 1) employing someone else in exchange for goods or services or 2) being invested and providing someone else's capital.
Whether gazillionaires spend money on a box of Tic-Tacs(TM) or a swimming-pool-sized subwoofer, someone is benefiting from that purchase. In this case, those who supply swimming-pool-sized subwoofers will not freeze or starve to death this winter. Or maybe they will...if someone were to force Ellison to direct his wealth towards "better things".
It represents the interests of three groups (corporations, politicians and journalists) while individual citizens have little role to play.
Bull. Individual citizens have the biggest role in it all: the vote. We talk about corporate money, journalistic bias, and so on. But except for few blatently illegal instances, it all comes down to the individual vote. All that money and power and press is spent towards the goal of influencing each individual vote.
With a vigilant enough citizenry, and corporation or politician or group can throw as much money as they like at an election, but it is still out of their control; they cannot make the vote.
People become disconnected because they are lazy. They dread the jury duty notice, change the channel to the WWF when the topic turns to government, and they can hardly spend the 20 minutes to swing by the poll on the way to the office. They certainly can't invest the time to reserach issues and candidates themselves and render any amount of money spent trying to convince them powerless.
Let's talk about online news services...perhaps it would be less charged if we removed/. from the spotlight and dealt with something more abstract.
This question is about so much more than Slashdot. We had stories about how online-only pubs were not welcome at the Olympics. Led by the Big 12 Conference and the University of Colorado in particular, schools nationwide are making it clear that online-only publications are not welcome to cover college athletics.
Why? Because I and hundreds of millions of others can do a pretty fine job (or a very poor job) of news coverage with little more capital cost than our computer. That's great but at the same time it creates a problem: how do you distinguish the good from the bad? In the specific case of sports coverage, does the fact that you can create a fan site with Front Page give you the right to press credentials? Why not?
Legitimacy is going to become an issue as everyone who can find the "Any Key" starts a weblog and becomes a "New Media Journalist(TM)". As a reader, I don't have time to sort through 95% of online news services. I want the best. Slashdot (here we go back to that) has, to this point, been among the "best" for its audience. There may be better.
The question may not be about standards or journalistic "ethics". But with the sheer volume of crap out there, quality of content will become important differentiating characteristics for a site, and how that site conducts itself will play a big part in that.
A lot of the "evolution" of games has been to make them more realistic. Real life ain't fun, though.
Take your typical combat sim...to play now, you must learn the entire systems of a modern jet fighter or warship. Great for those who crave realism and can immerse themselves in the experience, not so great for those who don't have 4 hours to spend in a sitting, who don't want to spend weeks learning how to start engines, and who just want to blow something up.
I know what you mean...I had forgotten about a lot of those C64 games until I discovered emulators. The gameplay is almost as good. One thing I remember about the C64 is that it had great sound for its day.
Just go here for a list of some C64 emulators...there are several others.
I do remember not long ago when they put out great, useful, fresh content if not weekly then several times a month. It was a daily must-read.
Then came Lycos. Now the site rotates in content from months ago to keep up the appearence of "fresh" content, and attempts to use audio and other media have only diluted what little new content is there.
Webmonkey is a once-great but dying resource. At least they still have their archive up.
But it's not just them. Builder.com has kinda dried up too. It's hard being a generalist site when good web sites require so many different skillsets these days.
Many get their news not from network or local newscasts or even the internet. They get it from places like Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition. Some of the attrition from network news is being acocunted for by online sources, but to a great extent, pop culture and the entertainment industry has replaced the news industry. Or worse...have those two merged and we're just now noticing?
The local news went out last night on the street (ala "Jaywalking") with two sets of four pictures. Four were of the two major pres/VP tickets, and four were of the last Survivors. Almost everyone identified the four Survivors. Some got Gore and Bush. Not one identified all four pres/VP candidates.
...but pure democracy is plain and simple mob rule. There's a reason why the word "democracy" is hardly mentioned if at all in the U.S. Constitution. Our founders knew better. Technology or no, Americans have flourished under a system by which the will of the majority can be (thankfully) overridden by the rule of law. Civil rights legislation is clear enough example of that.
The US has a constitutional republic which uses democratic processes within it. However you want to use technology to enhance that, fine. But don't ever confuse that with the idea that government in America has or should have democracy as its core.
Groening has had almost nothing to do with the Simpsons over the past few years. He has devoted the vast majority of his time to getting Futurama off the ground and left the Simpsons to others...have you noticed his credit on the show lately? Something like "creative consultant". I know it's always gonna be his baby, but I wonder what role he'd really have in a movie.
I think not. If you're going to cut a good bourbon with anything other than water...Pepsi won't do the job. That's what Co-Cola's made for, if nothing else.
1) Despite what we 24-hour net users and pundits might have us believe, net access lies a bit down there on Maslow's ol' heirarchy. This is a nice symbolic and attention-getting move but barely substantive when it comes to improving the standard of living.
2) So the government will provide these services free of charge. That also mean they can deny it at will if some future government sees fit, and the potential is tremendous for monitoring, censoring, and other supervisory actions. Even in a "free" society like the US, there is government abuse of its own systems and programs. It does and will continue to happen elsewhere. Even as this program is announced, "municipal governments will regulate the time local users can spend on the system". Highest bidder, anyone?
Slashdot Mirror
No, perhaps not. And yet hundreds of companies of any size, many of whom will never be sexy enough to make Business 2.0 or the Standard, have added enormous value and productivity to their company by using this medium as a tool within a successful business model instead of relying on the medium itself as the business model.
I can see benefits - if those who develop the policies and software for AOL are forced to use it, they'll likely understand customer issues a lot more quickly. Ease of use, spam, filtering for content might get a lot more attention internally.
Here's a piece about using your software in house - Juno had such a good email client that everyone was using Outlook.
asked earlier here this week about "does on call == at work?".
Many might be at the office 40, 50 or so hours now but how many hours a week are you actually involved in your job? I get good blocks of time to code at home so sometimes I take advantage of it. Sometimes at the office there is zero work being done.
We've recently heard from the Cassini probe about higher-than-expected radiation around Jupiter, and what was expected was already a very high level of radiation. These newly discovered planets are Jupiter-sized or even larger gas giants. Not to say life can't adapt in that environment, but I would expect moons around these planets to be bombarded with intense radiation even if they're an acceptable distance from their sun.
Wal-Mart had some of its strongest growth and expansion during the recession of the early 90s. While the economy and the retail sector in general was hit hard, Wal-Mart steamrolled on.
As a company with the price advantage in a completely different industry, we are also finding a lot of new business lately.
As many others have pointed out, accounting tricks can get you where you want to be.
People concerned about the survival of Red Hat or any startup/high-growth company should usually look at cash flow as an indicator of health.
Now of course every company reporting "losses" isn't in bad shape with cash, and definitely every "profitable" company isn't in a good cash position.
So how's Red Hat's cash flow?
Is to encourage your favorite artists to sign with record labels that aren't among the RIAA.
The only way to battle the RIAA, speaking in terms of business, is to draw the money of the music market to other outlets that offer better service to the bands and that are more friendly to the consumer. A really viable alternative to the RIAA system has to be found, and I'm not talking about virtual tip jars or the odd t-shirt sale.
Somehow I don't see that happening in the short term though if the RIAA, as flawed as it is, remains a more attractive business model to a lot of bands.
There's a ton of expertise in this community.
If this is really a concern and we've got time and talent, instead of playing on cracking scripts or Quake one night a week, get the word out in your church or community college or elementary school that you're willing to provide free, limited setups of computer systems and an hour of getting started help. In reality that might mean, gasp, getting them going on Windows, but if the "tech gap" is so awful, maybe we can stomach touching MS software a time or two.
Expecting the government to do the same on someone else's hard-earned tax dime is totally unnecessary.
A lot of people have offered that 3dfx's aquisition of STB was the beginning of the end for the opposite reason you mention: it effectively took them *out* of the OEM market and got them into the mfg business. nVidia, on the other hand, is succeeding exactly by relying on "putting your product into somebody else's" - the deal with Microsoft is just the latest.
I could be wrong, I don't follow this industry any closer than I have to, but nVidia's position in the OEM market as well as their chips that were a little better is what has them on top now.
Was the last plane you were on using front wheel version 2.7 or 2.9? You don't care.
If I'm flying on the plane, no, I don't care. But if it's my job to assure to the plane's occupants that it is in the best possible working order, you're damn right I need to know everything down to which tires are on the plane.
Do you think the owners of Ford Explorers care a little bit about which version of Firestone tires are on their vehicles?
This Red Herring article lays it out pretty nicely. P-2-P is not any new innovation, it is simple repackaging of existing ideas which look suspiciously like FTP or, in this case, IRC. The specific uses might seem interesting, but now that people are starting to see that there isn't really any great leap forward here, they can get back to just designing useful file transfer systems and leave the gee-whiz hype at the door.
Unless these guys take their gazillions and bury it in what would have to be an awfully big backyard, any money they have is either 1) employing someone else in exchange for goods or services or 2) being invested and providing someone else's capital.
Whether gazillionaires spend money on a box of Tic-Tacs(TM) or a swimming-pool-sized subwoofer, someone is benefiting from that purchase. In this case, those who supply swimming-pool-sized subwoofers will not freeze or starve to death this winter. Or maybe they will...if someone were to force Ellison to direct his wealth towards "better things".
Bull. Individual citizens have the biggest role in it all: the vote. We talk about corporate money, journalistic bias, and so on. But except for few blatently illegal instances, it all comes down to the individual vote. All that money and power and press is spent towards the goal of influencing each individual vote.
With a vigilant enough citizenry, and corporation or politician or group can throw as much money as they like at an election, but it is still out of their control; they cannot make the vote.
People become disconnected because they are lazy. They dread the jury duty notice, change the channel to the WWF when the topic turns to government, and they can hardly spend the 20 minutes to swing by the poll on the way to the office. They certainly can't invest the time to reserach issues and candidates themselves and render any amount of money spent trying to convince them powerless.
Let's talk about online news services...perhaps it would be less charged if we removed /. from the spotlight and dealt with something more abstract.
This question is about so much more than Slashdot. We had stories about how online-only pubs were not welcome at the Olympics. Led by the Big 12 Conference and the University of Colorado in particular, schools nationwide are making it clear that online-only publications are not welcome to cover college athletics.
Why? Because I and hundreds of millions of others can do a pretty fine job (or a very poor job) of news coverage with little more capital cost than our computer. That's great but at the same time it creates a problem: how do you distinguish the good from the bad? In the specific case of sports coverage, does the fact that you can create a fan site with Front Page give you the right to press credentials? Why not?
Legitimacy is going to become an issue as everyone who can find the "Any Key" starts a weblog and becomes a "New Media Journalist(TM)". As a reader, I don't have time to sort through 95% of online news services. I want the best. Slashdot (here we go back to that) has, to this point, been among the "best" for its audience. There may be better.
The question may not be about standards or journalistic "ethics". But with the sheer volume of crap out there, quality of content will become important differentiating characteristics for a site, and how that site conducts itself will play a big part in that.
A lot of the "evolution" of games has been to make them more realistic. Real life ain't fun, though.
Take your typical combat sim...to play now, you must learn the entire systems of a modern jet fighter or warship. Great for those who crave realism and can immerse themselves in the experience, not so great for those who don't have 4 hours to spend in a sitting, who don't want to spend weeks learning how to start engines, and who just want to blow something up.
I know what you mean...I had forgotten about a lot of those C64 games until I discovered emulators. The gameplay is almost as good. One thing I remember about the C64 is that it had great sound for its day. Just go here for a list of some C64 emulators...there are several others.
I do remember not long ago when they put out great, useful, fresh content if not weekly then several times a month. It was a daily must-read.
Then came Lycos. Now the site rotates in content from months ago to keep up the appearence of "fresh" content, and attempts to use audio and other media have only diluted what little new content is there.
Webmonkey is a once-great but dying resource. At least they still have their archive up.
But it's not just them. Builder.com has kinda dried up too. It's hard being a generalist site when good web sites require so many different skillsets these days.
The local news went out last night on the street (ala "Jaywalking") with two sets of four pictures. Four were of the two major pres/VP tickets, and four were of the last Survivors. Almost everyone identified the four Survivors. Some got Gore and Bush. Not one identified all four pres/VP candidates.
...but pure democracy is plain and simple mob rule. There's a reason why the word "democracy" is hardly mentioned if at all in the U.S. Constitution. Our founders knew better. Technology or no, Americans have flourished under a system by which the will of the majority can be (thankfully) overridden by the rule of law. Civil rights legislation is clear enough example of that.
The US has a constitutional republic which uses democratic processes within it. However you want to use technology to enhance that, fine. But don't ever confuse that with the idea that government in America has or should have democracy as its core.
Groening has had almost nothing to do with the Simpsons over the past few years. He has devoted the vast majority of his time to getting Futurama off the ground and left the Simpsons to others...have you noticed his credit on the show lately? Something like "creative consultant". I know it's always gonna be his baby, but I wonder what role he'd really have in a movie.
They don't even have to ask....I promise not to review any graphics cards at all on my site in exchange for a new GeForce board! :-)
I think not. If you're going to cut a good bourbon with anything other than water...Pepsi won't do the job. That's what Co-Cola's made for, if nothing else.
"make it a federal crime...to operate a Web site that accepts wagers from Americans"
Whoops....better reconsider that web-based app to keep track of next year's NCAA pool.
Read the comments on his front page as he introduces MacSlash
Two things...
1) Despite what we 24-hour net users and pundits might have us believe, net access lies a bit down there on Maslow's ol' heirarchy. This is a nice symbolic and attention-getting move but barely substantive when it comes to improving the standard of living.
2) So the government will provide these services free of charge. That also mean they can deny it at will if some future government sees fit, and the potential is tremendous for monitoring, censoring, and other supervisory actions. Even in a "free" society like the US, there is government abuse of its own systems and programs. It does and will continue to happen elsewhere. Even as this program is announced, "municipal governments will regulate the time local users can spend on the system". Highest bidder, anyone?